Chris Brown had some passionate peeps by his side when he was in court yesterday dealing with fraudulent community service claims, and we're not just talking about his formerly(?) abused girlfriend Rihanna!

After the hearing, Breezy's lawyer Mark Geragos publicly REAMED OUT the LA District Attorney's office for a good five minutes, claiming the motion the DA filed against Brown — a motion that alleges Chreezy faked reports detailing his community service in Virginia — is itself a "sloppy," falsified "travesty," and that they are unfairly "torturing" his client.

You may recall seeing Sean Penn rocking QUITE the drag-o-licious look a year or so back, while he was working on This Must Be The Place!

Well, we finally are getting a sneak peek at the fruits of his lipstick-wearing, Cure-inspired labor, as the first official trailer for the Paolo Sorrentino-directed flick, co-starring Frances McDormand, has just dropped!

Ch-ch-check it out (above)!

As we've reported, the story revolves around an old rock star who leaves his Dublin home to begin a journey across the states in an attempt to find the man who tortured his father in Nazi concentration camps!

But upon seeing this, we're pretty surprised to see its apparent tone is a lot less dark than we anticipated!

Not to mention how impressed we already are by Penn's performance!

We'll definitely be going to see this one when it drops November 9th! How about U??